That is outstanding.
As much as the World Cup narrative tends to revolve around the top nations, it’s just as much, if not more, about the sides who are simply over the moon to be there.
This will be Paraguay’s first World Cup for 16 years.
This is a man-made tragedy all down to energy policies that have pushed prices higher in search of a carbon ambition at home and simply pushing businesses to the wall.
Punishing today’s Conservatives for the mistakes of the past isn't just counterproductive—it’s completely self-defeating.
Think about it: it is exactly like a football fanbase refusing to support their club because of a terrible previous season under a completely different manager. It makes zero sense.
For years, the core complaint was clear: "We don't have an ideologically true Conservative leader, and we don't have real Conservative policies." Well, now we do. Under Kemi Badenoch, the landscape has completely shifted:
The Principles: She is delivering the authentic, common-sense conservatism the grassroots have been begging for.
The Vision: She is actively dismantling a decade of misrule and rebuilding the party from the ground up.
The Momentum: Her message is resonating, and her leadership is popular.
But Kemi cannot do this alone. She needs our support to make this renaissance a success.
Right now, the political landscape is fractured by a protest vote that achieves nothing. Splitting the vote for Reform—a party that operates as a volatile one-man band and routinely borrows policies from across the aisle just to patch a manifesto together—doesn't help a single soul in this country.
Worse still, let’s look at what Reform actually represents. The Tories are true blue. True Conservatism is blue.
Voting turquoise—a diluted, compromised blue—gets you a diluted form of conservatism that actively drifts leftward in Northern regions just to chase Red Wall populism. It lacks core stability.
The Conservative Party offers tested, experienced, "old school" representatives who understand how to govern and how to fight for traditional values.
It’s time to stop looking backward at past grievances and start looking forward at the real alternative. If you want genuine, un-diluted Conservatism, back the leader who is actually building it. 🇬🇧
Back Kemi. Back the Blues. 🌳
#KemiBadenoch #Conservatives #UKPolitics #Tories
‘Parliament is a tough place, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.’
Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch MP blasts Nigel Farage for speaking out over the way he was treated during PMQs, adding ‘he has just got to deal with it!’
What on earth were Reform’s media team thinking when they decided Rob Kenyon on the programme. I actually feel sorry for him, he’s getting mauled 🫣 #BBCQT
Illegal tobacco is costing HMRC £4.5bn a year, according to a new report by @KPMG. That means that around one in three cigarettes in Britain today is illicit, fake, or smuggled.
The £4.5bn is funnelled into human smuggling, drug trafficking, crime gangs, and terrorism. This is entirely the government's fault, and they have been happy to carry on taxing and regulating despite the effects on the market.
The black market trade in tobacco doesn't just fuel crime though. What makes up black market cigarettes kills much more quickly and painfully than regulated tobacco - we're talking about rat droppings, heavy metals, pesticides, you name it.
Government has under-resourced trading standards and ignored calls from retail, economists, and the industry, to cut tobacco duty and fund trading standards properly. But, it doesn't seem that the government cares enough, so we will see more gang violence, fewer jobs in retail, and more health problems from illicit consumption.
Reform putting out an attack ad on Kemi Badenoch misquoting her over Henry Nowak’s tragic death is a deeply misguided, ugly and offensive move.
A young British man was murdered. He died cuffed and begging for his life, alone in the street.
To weaponise his death, so vindictively, in order to make a viciously deceitful graphic attacking a political opponent is low.
I am not in the same party as Kemi Badenoch. In fact, we are competing for votes in Makerfield. I disagree with her on a great many number of policies.
I would never manipulate the death of an innocent young man to score petty party political points, especially using such blatant lies.
It’s just not how we conduct ourselves in Britain.
Principles still matter, or at least they should.